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Re: [Bacula-users] "Erase" a disk volume ?

2011-05-25 06:22:38
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] "Erase" a disk volume ?
From: "J. Echter" <j.echter AT elektro-mayer-echter DOT de>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 12:16:25 +0200
Am 25.05.2011 11:59, schrieb Hugo Letemplier:
> Hi,
>
> I got some disk volumes that I just want to "erase" "on demand".
> Indeed, theses ones were not recycled for various reasons (not in the
> good pool, new job upgraded to full, bad retention times…)
> I don't want to delete theses volumes because I want to check that in
> the time theses volumes will be recycled and so I can validate my
> backup strategy.
>
> All I want is to free the space used by theses old volumes because
> they have been purged .
>
> I thought in keeping the file and writing a null value into it : maybe
> something like echo "">  /Volumes/LabelOfTheVolume
> I want to keep the label in order to reuse the volume
>
> Thank you in advance
>
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Hi,

you could you maximum volumes in pool definition combined with max 
volume bytes you can tell the pool how big it can grow.

Have a look at the pool resource to check out what fits best for you.

cheers.

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